Admissions Confidential
Subtitle: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: September 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312284053
Subjects: Administration - General; Guidance & Orientation; Education / Higher; Higher; College And University Guidance And Counseling; Institutions Of Higher Education; Education / Teaching; Admission; Biography; College administrators; Colleges and universities; Duke University; Entrance requirements; United States; Universities and colleges; Education
First sentence: One of the least attractive features of life in the Academy is the emphasis on credentials and the constant comparisons that go on: between the degreed and the nondegreed, between the elitely educated and the products of lesser institutions, between those who teach and those who publish.